1802 Congressional and Other Official Inquiries
Correspondence and inquiries from the White House, members of the U.S. Congress, embassies, and heads of U.S. executive departments and agencies normally are cleared by the USPTO’s Office of Policy and International Affairs and/or the Office of Governmental Affairs.
Inquiries referred to in this section such as correspondence from foreign embassies, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and the U.S. Department of State must immediately be transmitted to the USPTO's Office of the Administrator for Policy and International Affairs, and a staff member of that office must be notified by phone that such correspondence has been received at 571-272-9300. Inquiries referred to in this section, such as correspondence from the U.S. Congress or the White House, must immediately be transmitted to the USPTO's Director of the Office of Governmental Affairs, and a staff member of that office must be notified by phone that such correspondence has been received at 571-272-7300.
This procedure is used so that there will be uniformity in the handling of contacts from the indicated sources, and also so that compliance with directives of the U.S. Department of Commerce is attained.